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Friday, May 16, 2014

Time to Organize!

It's that time of year again! Time to CLEAN! Spring is here and people it is time to get rid of the dust in your house and get everything off the floor. Clutter is the enemy of allergies and a healthy lifestyle so grab one of the books below to get yourself started with organizing your world!

Room by
Room by Monte Burch

We don't like to admit it, but most of us have way too much
stuff in and around our houses. Look in your cabinets, closets, garage, attic
or basement. They're probably a disorganized clutter, with items often not
stored properly, which can damage them, create stress in locating what you
need, even cause an unsafe situation. The first step in storing your stuff is
to cut the clutter and organize it. Room
by Room shows you what accessories are available at your local home
improvement and online stores to help you reduce your organizing efforts and
time. The possibilities are endless.

Home
storage projects: creative solutions for every room in the house by Paul
Anthony

This practical and inspiring book features 18 projects
designed to maximize storage in every corner of every cluttered home. A wide
array of practical, attractive and well-designed projects will appeal to
woodworkers at every skill level. Each project includes detailed building
instructions, complete plans and a list of materials.

Cut the
clutter and stow the stuff: the Q.U.I.C.K. way to bring lasting order to
household chaos by Lori Baird

Discover your unique clutter style-- and how to make it work
for you, not against you, in the fight with clutter. Take the clutter quiz on
page 8. Once you know your clutter style, you'll finally understand why you
feel compelled to collect every style of Spode teacup produced since 1856...or
stash a year's worth of newspapers under the bed...or keep your 45-year-old
son's high school football jerseys "just in case." And you'll find
effective strategies to turn those tendencies to your advantage! Rediscover
your rooms, find storage space you never knew you had, clear out the kids'
rooms without starting a war, and make all those piles of paper disappear like
magic.

Throw out
fifty things: clear the clutter, find your life by Gail Blanke

"If you want to grow, you gotta let go," is Blanke's
mantra; and that means eliminating all the clutter-physical and emotional-that
holds you back, weighs you down, or just makes you feel bad about yourself. In Throw Out Fifty Things she takes us
through each room of the house-from the attic to the garage-and even to the far
reaches of our minds. Through poignant and humorous stories, she inspires us to
get rid of the "life plaque" we've allowed to build-up there.

Easy home
organizer: 15-minute step-by-step solutions by Vicki Payne

Are things at home out of hand? Is the thought of putting
things in order just…overwhelming? With these simple, quickly implemented
solutions, life can become less stressful—and the messy habits of a lifetime
will disappear along with the chaos. The focus is on the little things that
make a big difference—like not having to search for the car keys at the last
minute—and the book is as organized as the house will be when you’re through:
it begins with advice on assessing the accumulated junk and eliminating the
excess, and moves on to shopping for containers, applying clutter strategies,
labeling jars and boxes, and creating a proper place for everything, room by
room. The ideas are smart and attractive!